Direxion ETF

Despite civilization’s rapid forward march toward mechanization, humanity has been routinely bad at predicting the scope, scale and impact of new technologies and the unforeseen consequences brought on by these sometimes massive shifts in how we as humans interact with the world. Case in...

After spending much of the year lagging the broader market, the financial services sector has recently been gaining steam. Over the past month, the largest exchange traded fund (ETF) tracking the sector is higher by about 6.3 percent.   Those gains could be tested this week amid testimony from...

Followers of the January Effect believe that so goes January, so goes the year for stocks. Add to that, it is widely believed that small-cap stocks are supposed to do the leading in the first month of the year to validate the January Effect. There is some bad news on that front. The iShares Russell...